Casey Affleck

Caleb Casey Affleck was born on Aug. 12, 1975 in Falmouth, MA, but raised in Cambridge along with his older brother Ben. Their father, Tim, was a sometime actor who bartended, but mainly worked as a mechanic and janitor before becoming a drug counselor; their mother, Chris, was a Harvard-bred grade school teacher. While they were children, their parents divorced, with their mother singularly raising them after their father headed out to California. Within their diverse, academic-minded neighborhood, the brothers' childhoods were relatively normal. Their mother's casting director friend, Patty Collins, kept them occupied by turning them onto acting. Subsequent auditions yielded Casey's first ...